The Ice Shelf was launched at The Women's Bookshop in Auckland on Tuesday 17 October by Richard von Sturmer who has kindly given permission for us to reproduce his speech here.It’s my honour to launch…

Let’s start with your poem ‘You Can’t Teach Creative Writing’, which ends by advising that a hopeful writer should just move to Dubrovnik. If you had to pick one, what do you think is better, theoreti…